To me the wording with a warning in it sounds extremely harsh. Adding any number of pleases only makes it worse. I still think this should not have been acted upon at all. What sort of de facto empirical outcome has there been previously? Are there any previous incidents that have not gone public?
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 18:53 mjy <myanni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2016 18:11:16 UTC+2 schrieb Nate Finch: > > It seems like most of the problem with this whole situation comes from the > wording of the "warning" > > Please consider this a warning from the Code of Conduct working group. > > > "consider this a warning" can be interpreted as a threat (though the > "Please" in front should soften it somewhat). I don't think it was > intended as such, but I think it's clear some people do read it that way. > Perhaps just a rewording would prevent such a reaction in the future. > > > It's partly a cultural thing, I suppose. Some people consider the e-mail > bland, others (like me) threatening. Someone should educate the CoC crew > about these cultural, perhaps personality differences so they can improve > their tone to avoid unnecessary escalation. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
